Notice convening the Annual General Meeting

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The shareholders of Global Health Partner are invited to participate at the Annual General Meeting to be held on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 4 p.m. in the SE Banken premises at Östra Hamngatan 24, 405 04 Göteborg.

Registration
Shareholders who wish to participate in the Annual General Meeting must

be recorded in the share register kept by Euroclear Sweden AB (formerly VPC AB) on Thursday, April 23, 2009, and

give notice of intent to participate to the company not later than on Friday, April 24, 2009 at 4 p.m. Notice of intent to participate can be given either by letter to Global Health Partner AB (publ), Östra Hamngatan 26-28, 411 09 Göteborg, Sweden, by telephone +46 31-712 53 03, by fax 46 31-313 13 21 or by e-mail info@ghpartner.com thereby stating the number of assistants attending.

Notice should include the shareholder’s name, personal or organization identification number, address and telephone number and number of shares. Shareholders represented by proxy should submit the proxy to the company together with the notice. Anyone representing a legal entity should submit a copy of the Certificate of Registration or similar indicating who is entitled to sign on behalf of the company. Proxy forms in Swedish and English are available at the company or on the company web site www.globalhealthpartner.com.

Shareholders that have their shares registered in the name of a nominee must, in addition to giving notice of participation in the meeting, temporarily be recorded in the share register in their own names (so called voting-rights registration) to be able to participate in the General Meeting. In order for such registration to be effectuated on Thursday, April 23, 2009, shareholders should contact their bank or trustee well in advance of that date.

Agenda
1. Opening of the AGM.
2. Election of Chairman of the Meeting.
3. Preparation and approval of the voting list.
4. Approval of the agenda.
5. Election of one or two minutes-checkers.
6. Determination as to whether the meeting has been properly convened.
7. Speech by the CEO.
8. Presentation of the Annual Report and the Audit Report as well as the Consolidated Accounts and the Audit Report for the Group.
9. Resolution on
a) adoption of the Income Statement and the Balance Sheet as well as the Consolidated Income Statement and the Consolidated Balance Sheet,
b) dispositions in respect of the company’s profit pursuant to the adopted Balance Sheet,
c) discharge from liability of the Directors and the CEO.
10. Determination of the number of Directors and Deputy Directors.
11. Determination of fees to the Board of Directors and the Auditor.
12. Election of Board of Directors.
13. The Board’s proposal for resolutions on authorisation for the Board of Directors to issue shares in connection with an acquisition of a company etc.
14. The Board’s proposal for resolutions on remuneration guidelines for the Global Health Partner Group Management.
15. The Nomination Committee’s proposal for resolutions on Nomination committee work for the AGM 2010.
16. The Board’s proposal for resolutions to change the Articles of Association (way to announce the Notice).
17. Closing of the meeting.

Election of Chairman of the Meeting (agenda item 2)
Andrew Wilson (Hosar International Limited), Thomas Eklund (Investor Growth Capital Europe), Thomas Eriksson (Metroland B.V.) and Urban Jansson, Chairman of the Board, constitute the Global Health Partner Nomination Committee for the 2009 AGM.

The Nomination Committee’s proposal is that Urban Jansson is elected chairman of the Annual General Meeting.

Resolution on dispositions in respect of the company’s profit pursuant to the adopted Balance Sheet (agenda item 9 b)
The Board of Directors proposes that no dividend is paid for the financial year 2008.

Proposal for number of Directors, Board of Directors and remuneration to the Board and the auditor (agenda items 10, 11 and 12)
The Nomination Committee’s proposal for number of Board members is five with no deputy members.

The Nomination Committee proposes re-election of Urban Jansson, Andrew Wilson, Lottie Svedenstedt and Per Båtelson, and new election of Karl Swartling, for a period until the next Annual General Meeting. The Nomination Committee proposes that the present chairman Urban Jansson shall remain Chairman of the Board. Joachim Werr has resigned from the Board of Directors.

The Nomination Committee proposes a Board remuneration of SEK 900,000 to be split between the members, with SEK 400,000 to the Chairman of the Board, SEK 200,000 to one Board member who is not employed and not representing a main owner, and SEK 150,000 each to the two remaining Board members who are not employed. No remuneration is paid to Board members who are employed by Global Health Partner. No further remuneration is paid for committee work.

The Nomination Committee proposes that the auditor's fee be paid on approved account.

The Board’s proposal for resolutions on authorisation for the Board of Directors to issue shares in connection with an acquisition of a company etc. (agenda item 13)
The Board of Directors proposes that the AGM provides a mandate to the Board of Directors to issue not more than 6,400,000 shares, corresponding to approximately 9.9 percent of the share capital, deviating from the shareholders pre-emption rights, until the next AGM. The purpose of the mandate to issue new shares is to give the company the possibility to acquire companies, or parts of companies, within the business carried out by Global Health Partner.

If the mandate is fully used, the dilution effect would be approximately 9.0 percent of the share capital and votes of the company.

The decision is only valid if at least two thirds of both the votes cast and the votes represented at the AGM have been given in favour of the proposal.

The Board’s proposal for resolutions on remuneration guidelines for the Global Health Partner Group Management (agenda item 14)
The proposal is following the principles decided on at the Extra General Meeting on 16 September 2008.

Global Health Partner AB (the Company) shall strive to offer total remuneration that is fair and competitive at the market where the Company is operating. The remuneration terms shall emphasize ‘pay for performance’, and vary with the performance of the individual and the Company’s result. The total remuneration can comprise fixed compensation and compensation based on incentive programs.

Following the ‘pay for performance’ principle, compensation from different forms of incentive programs shall represent an important portion of the total compensation opportunity for Senior Management. Such compensation can be offered both with short-term performance targets (up to 1 year) and long-term performance targets (3 years or longer). Other variable compensation need approval by the Board of Directors, and may be used in extraordinary circumstances, under the conditions that such extraordinary arrangement shall be made for recruitment or retention purposes.

The Board of Directors shall be entitled to deviate from these guidelines if special reasons for doing so exist in any individual case.

The Nomination Committee’s proposal on a resolution on Nomination committee work for the AGM 2010 (agenda item 15)
The Nomination Committee proposes that the Annual General Meeting shall decide on a Nomination Committee before the Annual General Meeting 2010 according to the following:

Global Health Partner shall have a Nomination Committee consisting of one representative from each of the three largest owners who want to appoint a representative, as well as the Chairman of the Board. The names of the three representatives and the shareholders they represent shall be made public no later than 6 months before the 2010 AGM. The Nomination Committee shall be inaugurated based on ownership statistics from Euroclear Sweden AB (former VPC AB) as of the last day of September 2009.

The Nomination Committee shall present proposals regarding the following items to be presented before the 2010 AGM for decision:

Chairman of the AGM, number of Board members, Board of Directors, Chairman of the Board, fees to the Board of Directors and the distribution among the Board members as well as remuneration for committee work, fees to Group auditors, when applicable election of auditor, and proposal for resolution on Nomination Committee for the AGM 2011. In addition, the Nomination Committee shall fulfil all possible tasks following the Swedish Code of Corporate Governance.

The Board’s proposal concerning a resolution to change the Articles of Association (way to announce the Notice) (agenda item 16)
In order to enable implementation as soon as practically possible of the more cost-effective procedures for convening general meetings, expected to enter into force in connection with the notice for the Annual General Meeting of 2010, the Board proposes that the procedures for convening general meetings set out in § 8 of the Articles of Association shall have the following, amended wording:

“Notice of a general meeting shall be announced in the Swedish Official Gazette (Post- och Inrikes Tidningar) and on the company’s website. It shall be announced in Dagens Industri that a notice to a general meeting has been made.”

The Board further proposes that the resolution of the Annual General Meeting to amend the Articles of Association in accordance with the above shall be conditional upon that an amendment of the procedures for convening general meetings in the Swedish Companies Act (SFS 2005:551) has entered into force and that the above proposed wording of the Articles of Association is consistent with the new wording of the Swedish Companies Act.

Other
The accounts, the auditor’s report as well as the complete decision proposals regarding items 2, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16, as well as the auditor’s statement in accordance with the Companies Act chapter 8 paragraph 54, will be available at the company and on the company web site, www.globalhealthpartner.com, as from Wednesday 15 April 2009. The material can also be sent upon request to shareholders.

At the time of issuing the notice to AGM, the total number of shares and votes of the company amount to 64,816,074.

Göteborg in March 2009
GLOBAL HEALTH PARTNER AB (publ)
The Board of Directors

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